Deaths in November 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Jean Jacques Dozy, 96, Dutch geologist.
 * Mac Dre, 34, American rapper, drive-by shooting.
 * James Hanson, Baron Hanson, 82, British industrialist and Conservative life peer, cancer.
 * Hatem Kamil, Iraqi deputy governor of Baghdad, shot.
 * Terry Knight, 61, American rock manager and producer (Grand Funk Railroad), shot during domestic dispute.
 * Mark Ledford, 43-44, American trumpeter, singer and guitarist, cardiovascular disease.

2

 * Gabriel Bywaters, 90, Australian politician.
 * Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal.
 * Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch road bicycle racer (world champion, 1978), heart attack.
 * Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emirati politician, president of UAE (1971–2004), Emir of Abu Dhabi.
 * Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch filmmaker, television presenter, and author, stabbed and shot.

3

 * Janet Backhouse, 66, English manuscripts curator at the British Museum, cancer.
 * James H. Binger, 88, American lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
 * Joe Bushkin, 87, American swing era jazz pianist, pneumonia.
 * Eilert Dahl, 85, Norwegian nordic skier.
 * Sergejs Žoltoks, 31, Latvian ice hockey player (Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia.

4

 * Michael Gross, 84, Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist.
 * Robert Heaton, 43, British songwriter and drummer (New Model Army), pancreatic cancer.
 * Richard Hongisto, 67, American sheriff of San Francisco and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack.
 * Gordon Ingram, 79, American inventor and entrepreneur.
 * Ellen Meloy, 58, American author.
 * Yasutomi Nishizuka, 72, Japanese biochemist, discovered Protein Kinase C (PKC).
 * Dee Phillips, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves).

5

 * Jerzy Duda-Gracz, 63, Polish painter.
 * Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch actor, comedian, singer and dancer, heart attack.
 * Basil McIvor, 76, Northern Irish politician and educationalist.
 * Nili Natcho, 22, Circassian-Israeli basketball player, car accident.
 * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, 66, British peer, murdered.
 * Billie Woodgate, 79, British tennis player.

6

 * Serge Adda, 56, French television executive (TV5), cancer.
 * Pola Alonso, 80, Argentine film actress.
 * Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter, prostate cancer.
 * Michel T. Halbouty, 95, American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter.
 * Erwin Heerich, 81, German artist.
 * Pete Jolly, 72, American jazz pianist and accordionist, multiple myeloma].
 * Robert Lang, 70, English actor, cancer.
 * Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress (Star Trek), multiple strokes and lung cancer.
 * Marion Shilling, 93, American film actress, leading lady in 1930s B-Western films.
 * Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach and television presenter, lung cancer.

7

 * Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker and English billiards player.
 * Kenzaburo Hara, 97, Japan politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 * Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer (Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Dallas), colon cancer.
 * Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS.

8

 * Bruno Bettinelli, 91, Italian composer and teacher.
 * Ruby de Mel, 86, Sri lankan actress.
 * Chandler Harper, 90, American golfer.
 * Sérgio Hingst, 80, Brazilian film actor, heart attack.
 * Nelly Meden, 76, Argentine actress.
 * Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican sprinter and Olympic silver medalist, cancer.
 * Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease.
 * G. Sakunthala, 72, Indian film actress.

9

 * Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide.
 * Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour.
 * Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor.
 * Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author (Millennium), heart attack.
 * Eiji Morioka, 58, Japanese boxer and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.

10

 * Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry.
 * Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer.
 * Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer and manager.
 * Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis.

11

 * Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster, stroke.
 * Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian political leader and chairman PLO, President of the Palestinian Authority.
 * Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction.
 * Jacques Dynam, 80, French film actor, pneumonia.
 * Raymond Murray, 91, United States Marine Corps officer.

12

 * Lucia Berlin, 68, American short story writer.
 * Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer.
 * Frederik Prausnitz, 84, German-American conductor and teacher.
 * Norman Rose, 88, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez).
 * Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish fighter ace during World War II.
 * Michael J. Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack.

13

 * John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), suicide from height.
 * Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, American rapper and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, drug overdose.
 * Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister.
 * Thomas M. Foglietta, 75, American politician and diplomat.
 * Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack.
 * Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer.
 * Don Sharpe, 79, British sound editor (Aliens, Batman, Sleuth), Oscar winner (1987).
 * Richard Alan Simmons, 80, Canadian-American screenwriter.
 * Errol Thompson, 55, Jamaican record producer, audio engineer and dub music pioneer, stroke.
 * Keith Weller, 58, English footballer (Millwall. Leicester City), cancer.

14

 * Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer.
 * David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer.
 * Jesse Gonder, 68, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Petter Mørch Koren, 94, American politician.
 * Harald Kråkenes, 78, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Wasimul Bari Rajib, 52, Bangladeshi actor, colorectal cancer.
 * Matilda White Riley, 93, American gerontologist.
 * Shiva Shankar, 72, Nepali singer, composer and actor, liver cancer.
 * Veena, 78, Indian actress.
 * Evelyn West, 80, American burlesque stripper, pin-up model and actress.

15

 * Elmer L. Andersen, 96, American businessman, governor of Minnesota (1961–1963).
 * Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, 73, Iranian doctor, naturopath, HIV/AIDS denialist and writer, pneumonia.
 * Bob Cooper, 68, Northern Irish politician.
 * John Morgan, 74, Welsh-born Canadian comedian, former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, heart attack.
 * Rafael Peralta, 25, American marine and posthumously recipient of the Navy Cross, killed in action.
 * Jack Schmidt, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).

16

 * Floyd Baker, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Yves Berger, 73, French writer and editor.
 * Otis Dudley Duncan, 82, American sociologist and statitician.
 * Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor.
 * Richard Frey, 84, Austria-Chinese military physician and politician.
 * B. C. Gowrishankar, 54, Indian cinematographer and screenwriter.
 * Ken Hannam, 75, Australian film and television director, cancer.
 * Margaret Hassan, 59, British aid worker, chief of organization CARE International, presumed killed by hostage takers in Iraq.
 * Reed Irvine, 82, American economist, founder of Accuracy in Media, complications of stroke.
 * Björn Nyberg, 75, Swedish fantasy author.

17

 * George Curtis, 84, English football player and coach.
 * Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide by hanging.
 * Frank Neary, 83, English football player.
 * Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist.

18

 * Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, Argentinian Roman Catholic cardinal, cardiovascular disease.
 * Robert Bacher, 99, American nuclear physicist, co-leader of the Manhattan Project.
 * Frank Baldwin, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).
 * Bobby Frank Cherry, 75, American criminal, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, cancer.
 * Cy Coleman, 76, American composer of Broadway musicals, heart attack.
 * Jack Horner, 77, Canadian politician.
 * Haruyo Ichikawa, 91, Japanese film actress and singer.
 * Norman Lloyd Johnson, 87, British statistician and academic.
 * Sergei Kovalenko, 57, Soviet and Ukrainian basketball player and Olympic champion.
 * Alfred Maseng, Vanuatuan president (1994, 2004) and foreign minister (1995–1996).
 * N. Mathrubootham, 60, Indian psychiatrist and actor.
 * Antonio Pocovi, 82, Argentine Olympic sprinter (men's 400 metres and men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * George Scholes, 75, Canadian Olympic hockey player (bronze medal winner in men's ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics).

19

 * George Canseco, 70, Filipino composer and politician.
 * Mario Escudero, 76, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
 * Piet Esser, 90, Dutch sculptor.
 * Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian, meningitis.
 * Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor (Cabaret).
 * Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, breast cancer.
 * Don MacMillan, 76, Australian Olympic athlete.
 * Martin Malia, 80, American historian specializing in Russian history.
 * Terry Melcher, 62, American musician and producer, son of Doris Day, melanoma.
 * Manuel Zapata Olivella, 84, Colombian doctor, anthropologist, and writer.
 * Brian Traxler, 37, American baseball player, liver disease.
 * John Vane, 77, British Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (Medicine, 1982).
 * Trooper Washington, 60, American basketball player, heart attack.

20

 * Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist, heart attack.
 * Janine Haines, 59, Australian politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats.
 * Judith Haspel, 86, Swimming champion.
 * Anna Keaveney, 55, English actress, lung cancer].
 * Ancel Keys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration.
 * Ian Lewis, 69, Irish cricketer.
 * Dénes Pócsik, 64, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (winner of three Olympic medals: 1964, 1968, 1972).
 * Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, 88, German philologist.

21

 * Harvey Bennett, Sr., 79, Canadian ice hockey goaltender.
 * Georges Morel, 66, French Olympic rower.
 * Noel Perrin, 77, American essayist, MSA.
 * Mashhoor bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 50, Saudi prince.
 * Uwe Scholz, 45, German ballet dancer, director and choreographer.

22

 * Piero Brandi, 65, Italian boxer.
 * Leo Dee, 73, American artist and teacher.
 * Arthur Hopcraft, 71, British author (The Football Man), sports journalist, and screenwriter.
 * Stephen Mallatratt, 57, English playwright, television screenwriter and actor, leukemia.

23

 * Frances Chaney, 89, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * John Cordle, 92, British politician.
 * Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned.
 * Karl Enderlin, 81, Swiss Olympic figure skater.
 * Mike Jarmoluk, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Lars-Magnus Lindgren, 82, Swedish film director and screenwriter.
 * Eris Paton, 76, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Joseph J. Sisco, 85, American diplomat, known for Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, complications of diabetes.
 * Harrison Stafford, 92, American gridiron football player (University of Texas, New York Giants).

24

 * Larry Brown, 53, American author and novelist, heart attack.
 * Arthur Hailey, 84, British-Canadian author, complications following stroke.
 * Joseph Hansen, 81, American mystery author, heart attack.
 * James Wong Jim, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, talk show host and author, lung cancer.
 * Taiji Kase, 75, Japanese karateka.
 * Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist.
 * Harry Moniba, 67, Liberian politician, vice president (1986–1990), traffic collision.

25

 * Rachel Attas, 70, Israeli actress (Impossible on Saturday) and singer, cancer.
 * David Bailey, 71, American actor (Another World, Passions), drowned.
 * Eduards Berklavs, 90, Soviet and Latvian politician.
 * Sheila Cussons, 82, Afrikaans poet.
 * Bob Haney, 78, American comic book writer (Teen Titans, Doom Patrol, Aquaman).
 * Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart failure.
 * Denis Richards, 94, British historian.

26

 * Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer (Somerset, New South Wales) and test cricket umpire.
 * Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director, cancer.
 * Tom Haller, 67, American MLB All-Star catcher (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Giants).
 * C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator, author and Shakespeare scholar.
 * Maude Lloyd, 96, South African ballerina.
 * Bernard Pariset, 74, French judoka and jujitsuka.
 * Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor (1960s), President of the Confederation (1966).
 * Ascher H. Shapiro, 88, American professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

27

 * John Churchill Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer.
 * Billy James Hargis, 79, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-Communist activist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish middle-distance runner and multiple world record holder.
 * Avraham Negev, 81, Israeli archaeologist.
 * Velimir Valenta, 75, Yugoslav/Croatian rower and Olympic champion.

28

 * Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA, cancer.
 * Sergio Castelletti, 66, Italian football player and manager.
 * Cris Huerta, 69, Portuguese actor.
 * Connie Johnson, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).
 * Hans Christian Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic cyclist (men's team pursuit cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Ted Russell, 92, Irish politician and company director.
 * Molly Weir, 94, Scottish actress.

29

 * John Drew Barrymore, 72, American actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore, cancer.
 * Harry Danning, 93, American MLB All-Star catcher (New York Giants).
 * Irwin Donenfeld, 78, American DC Comics executive.
 * Michael Janisch, 77, Austrian actor.
 * Jonah Jones, 85, Welsh sculptor, writer and artist-craftsman.
 * Inger Nordbø, 89, Danish-Norwegian Olympic diver (women's 3 metre springboard and women's 10 metre platform at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Jack Shields, 74, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Fort McMurray—Athabasca, Alberta), heart attack.
 * Luigi Veronelli, 78, Italian gastronome, wine critic and intellectual, cancer.

30

 * Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, heart failure.
 * Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland).
 * Robert Howe, 79, Australian tennis player.
 * Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist and musician, heart failure.
 * Johnny Quigley, 69, Scottish footballer.
 * Seungsahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen.